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FARM FRONT ROUNI 





BUTTER SET ASIDE ->Manufac 



turers of creamery butter will be re- 

 quired to set aside for war uses 20 

 per cent of their production in Sep- 

 tember, as compared with 30 per 

 cent in August, this is the same set 

 aside, however, as September, 1943. 

 It is expected that the set aside pro- 

 gram will be continued in October. 



MILK POWDER — WFA has can 



celled a previously announced set 

 aside requirement of 35 per cent of 

 September production for manufac- 

 turers of roller dryer skim milk pow- 

 der. 



WORK CLOTHING — a new 



WPB order requires all manufactur- 

 ers of work clothing to produce each 

 quarter at least 90 per cent of the 

 number of units produced during 

 the third quarter of 1942. The order 

 also requires manufacturers to put 

 back into production any of the listed 

 items of work clothing that may have 

 been discontinued since the base 

 period. 



TRUCK TIRES — Moj Gen Lu 



cius D. Clay, director of materiel, 

 .^rmy Service Forces, informed tire 

 manufacturers that the Army con- 

 siders the tire situation so serious it 

 will furlough back to the manufac- 

 turers for heavy tire building all sol- 

 diers over 30 years old who are not 

 in the infantry, who have had one 

 year's experience as heavy tire 

 builders and banbury room workers 

 in the tire industry, and who are in 

 this country. 



COMMERCIAL TRUCKS — Pro 



duction of 56,705 commercial trucks 

 has been programmed for the first 

 quarter of 1945, according to WPB. 

 Programmed production for the first 

 quarter of 1944 was 10,894 units. A 

 total of 41,068 is scheduled for the 

 last quarter of 1944. 



FERTILIZER PRICES — opa 



has issued a nation-wide simplified 

 retail schedule of uniform dollar- 

 and-cents ceiling prices on mixed 



fertilizers, superphosphate, potash 

 and nitrogenous materials. Local ra- 

 tion boards have copies of a trade 

 bulletin on these fertilizers. 



SUPERPHOSPHATE OUTLOOK 



— Production of superphosphate fer- 

 tilizers will be adversely affected J^y 

 industrial shortages of sulfuric acid 

 caused by increased demands of the 

 Army for ordnance requirements 

 and of the Petroleum Administration 

 for War, according to the WPB. Ac- 

 cording to the current rate of fer- 

 tilizer production, approximately 

 8000 tons of superphosphate fer- 

 tilizers will be available to Amer- 

 ican farmers for the year July 1, 

 1944, to June 30, 1945, as compared 

 with 6,800,000 available in the 1943- 

 44 year. The 8000 ton estimate will 

 be short of WFA estimated require- 

 ments of 10,000 tons. 



APPLE CEILINGS — Maximum 

 prices have been fixed for the 1944 

 apple crop. The schedule will re- 

 sult in a national average price 

 which consumers may have to pay 

 for a pound of apples at approx- 

 imately IOV4 cents. 



WHEAT SUPPLY — WFA reports 

 that 1944-45 supplies of wheat in the 

 United States, which probably will 

 exceed 1,500 million bushels, should 

 be sufficient not only to meet all es- 

 sential requirements for the fiscal 

 year beginning July 1, but also 

 should provide a substantial carry- 

 over as a protection against the pos- 

 sibility of shorter supplies in 1945- 

 46. 



1945 WHEAT GOAL — iiunois 



1945 wheat acreage goal has been 

 announced at 1,500,000 acres as 

 compared with 1-, 38 1,000 estimated 

 1944 planted acres. State wheat 

 acreages total 68.5 million acres for 

 the country as a whole. 



POULTRY PRICES — wfa stwo 



new live poultry grades "1" and "2" 

 have replaced its previous three 

 grades of "A", "B", and "C". All 

 new grade 1 live poultry items will 



have as ceilings the prices previ- 

 ously applied to grade A. All grade 

 2 poultry will have maximums 4 

 cents per pound lower than grade 

 1, at price levels corresponding to 

 old ceilings for grade C poultry. 



BEEF SET-ASIDE — Beginning 

 Aug. 20, WFA required all feder- 

 ally-inspected slaughterers to set 

 aside for government procurement 

 50 per cent of the quantities of beef 

 meeting Army specifications. 



CATTLE ON FEED — Number of 

 cattle on feed for market in the 11 

 corn belt states on Aug. 1 this year 

 was 41 per cent smaller than on the 

 corresponding date a year earlier, 

 USDA reports. This is one of the 

 sharpest decreases in corn belt feed- 

 ing ever shown. Only in January, 

 1935, following the drouth year of 

 1934, was the percentage decrease 

 larger than this year. Smallest de- 

 creases were in Wisconsin and in 

 the two leading cattle feeding states 

 of Iowa and Illinois. Wisconsin was 

 down 20 per cent, Iowa 35 pe'r cent 

 and Illinois 34 per cent. 



LUMBER PRIORITIES — Farm- 



ers who need lumber for essential 

 maintenance and repair work o.n 

 farms may obtain preference ratings 

 of AA-3, and in some cases AA-2, 

 according to the WFA. These rat- 

 ings are as high as those assigned 

 to any other civilian uses. 



CORN PICKERS — WPB on Aug 



22 called upon manufacturers of 

 corn pickers and binders to step up 

 production the next six weeks so 

 that the machinery would be avail- 

 able for the fall harvest season. 



WPB reported the total value of 

 form machinery produced during 

 July wGs a 51.2 per cent increase 

 over the monthly average for the 

 12 preceding months. '. 



Continuation of the national school lunch 



program for the 1944-45 school year has 

 been assured by the appropriation by Con- 

 gress of 50 million dollars for its operation, 

 according to the WFA. 



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